fieldpiece
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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What a Lovely War too often becomes bogged down in its own dogged sincerity and finally becomes mired, like some promising but unwieldy fieldpiece, in the Marne's mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
He referred to an ancient fieldpiece located on the front lawn of the school.
From The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Stratemeyer, Edward
I took my way to the dockyard, where, on arriving, I found a fieldpiece brought up against the gate.
From Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Ledbury, Lady Biddulph of
Sevier raised a hundred and fifty men and marched to take them back, carrying a light fieldpiece.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Roosevelt, Theodore
Mick Kennedy trained his one eye like a fieldpiece upon the locality suggested.
From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Lillibridge, Will
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